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Mitigation Banking Credits Availability & Inventory

New development projects can become complex processes with their own sets of challenges, such as federal and state regulation compliance for protected water resources. Purchasing mitigation bank credits from an approved mitigation bank within the same watershed as the project impacts is the preferred compensatory mitigation mechanism per the 2008 Mitigation Rule.  Thus, mitigation banking helps to streamline the land development process.

While mitigation banking seems straightforward in concept, land developers may need to purchase specific credits for water resource impacts. The types of bank credits include:

  • Stream mitigation credits
  • Wetland mitigation credits
  • Nutrients mitigation credits
  • Carbon mitigation credits
  • Species mitigation credits 

Davey Mitigation leverages their wide network of mitigation bank partnerships and comprehensive credit inventory to find the right solution for our clients. Our team has the experience necessary to help developers purchase mitigation credits at the best cost and successfully navigate the permitting process. 

Mitigation

What Is Mitigation Banking

Mitigation banks are restoration, enhancement, and preservation projects in areas where federally and state protected aquatic resources are impacted. Banks can be classified by who sponsors them or the type of restoration activity taking place and produce mitigation credits, which developers can purchase to offset impacts to protected water resources on their development projects in the same watershed as the mitigation bank.

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Benefits Of Mitigation Banking

Mitigation banks help protect and restore important ecological resources without sacrificing project progress. Purchasing mitigation credits can also help ease the development process with reduced compliance costs and permitting time

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Mitigation Landowner Partnerships

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Davey Mitigation partners with landowners to help protect the valuable natural resources on your land while enabling connections to multiple potential revenue streams to maximize the landowner's opportunity.

Mitigation Custom Solutions

Custom Mitigation Solutions

No matter how complex the mitigation challenge, our team is up to the task. Davey has extensive experience with all aspects of mitigation, including permittee-responsible mitigation projects, full-delivery mitigation solutions, and more.

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Streams & Wetlands

Davey Mitigation works under numerous different state and federal programs, which include mitigation banks, customized mitigation projects for specific permits, and turnkey or “full delivery” projects for in-lieu fee programs as well as private equity investors. 

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Water Quality

Invest in the future of clean water with reducing nutrient loading by minimizing runoff on agricultural lands and/or preventing active erosion on degraded streams. This green infrastructure approach allows for the impact of stormwater compliance to be seen and felt across the landscape.

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Living Shoreline

Designed to protect the community’s marina, existing bulkhead, and eroding fringing marsh, the living shoreline was constructed from our proprietary QuickReef® living shoreline system.

Dam Removal

Dam Removal

Davey Mitigation has extensive experience with dam removal projects. We work closely with regulatory agencies to verify the uplift from these projects and are able to tap our in-house technical and operational expertise to adequately assess feasibility and risk.​

Featured Mitigation Solutions Work

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Wetland Restoration In Henry County, IN

Davey Mitigation removed invasive plant species and weeds, created new wetlands, and planted native plants to restore the Candace Lee Fink wetland mitigation site in Henry County, IN.
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Dam Removal In Raleigh, NC Helps To Restore Neuse River

Davey Mitigation removed the Milburnie Dam in Raleigh, NC, restoring natural flow and migratory fish passage to the Neuse River, providing compensatory mitigation for stream impacts in the watershed, including those associated with the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s I-540 project.
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Stream Restoration In Fauquier County, VA

Davey Mitigation restored nearly 3,000 linear feet of stream on a farm in Fauquier County, VA, stabilizing the stream and re-establishing habitats for native plants and animals.
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Stream & Wetland Restoration In Stark County, OH Restores Local Watersheds

Davey Mitigation helped restore a former agricultural site in Stark County, OH as part of the Stream & Wetland Foundation’s in-lieu fee (ILF) mitigation credit program.
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